Work means Casper for about half of Mills’ working residents
About one in ten work in Mills; the top destination outside it is Casper (50%, 4 miles). For jobs and income Mills is better than 15% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (B−). Household incomes here are lower than in 87% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Mills at work: what stands out
Most Mills residents work close to home
77% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about three in four. How far ↓
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Mills’ working residents have a job less than 4 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 22 minutes, longer than the Wyoming average of 19. Time on the road ↓
The jobs in Mills pay better than its residents’ jobs
72% of the jobs based in Mills pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 52% of the jobs Mills residents hold. 94% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Mills. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Income, poverty and work: Mills’ grade explained
Job access by car holds Mills’ grade up (ahead of 45% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (8.1%, U.S. 5.2%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mills could be anywhere from D to B−.
The commute from Mills, by distance
About 20% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
A commute of about 22 minutes in Mills
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mills workers work from home, vs 9% across Wyoming. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,832 commuters (the 4% who work from home are left out). Across Wyoming: 83% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Goods jobs make up 33% of work in Mills
2,294 jobs are based in Mills.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mills, 2013 → 2023: 2,932 → 2,294. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How a workday changes Mills
On a workday 1,460 residents head out to work, 131 work right here, and 2,163 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,300 people are in Mills on a workday afternoon, 15% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.44 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The places Mills commutes to
Where Mills clocks in
Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Few in Mills walk, bike or ride to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,903 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.8% of Mills households have no vehicle (Wyoming 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mills’ commuters take a bus or train.
Mills next to U.S. towns of 3,200 to 6,300: 3,489th of 4,009 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 358 | Ranchettes WY | 5,949 | $121K | 2.9% | 0.5% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,693 | Newcastle WY | 3,349 | $83K | 7.3% | 0.4% | 48% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,761 | Worland WY | 4,730 | $63K | 10.7% | 3.1% | 55% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,487 | Clairton PA | 5,876 | $37K | 33.0% | 8.2% | 5% | D |
| 3,488 | Atlanta TX | 5,478 | $60K | 21.1% | 5.9% | 28% | D |
| 3,489 | Mills WY | 4,634 | $51K | 15.0% | 8.1% | 8% | D |
| 3,490 | Castor Township MO | 4,651 | $57K | 14.2% | 6.5% | 10% | D |
| 3,491 | Champlain NY | 5,583 | $60K | 14.2% | 5.7% | 28% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,009 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Mills, the top three, the last and three more from Wyoming.
Bordering towns draw 55% of Mills’ workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mills workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mills | – | D | B− | 22 min | $50,656 |
| Casper | 50% | B− | A− | 17 min | $70,218 |
| Vista West | 3% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Mountain View | 2% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Vista West and Mountain View: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Casper. Darker towns draw more of Mills’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Mills: questions
What is the median household income in Mills?
$50,656 (±$10,394) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,176 across Wyoming and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mills?
15.0%, against 10.5% across Wyoming and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mills?
22 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Wyoming and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mills work?
8% work in town.
Is Mills walkable?
Mills is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mills without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mills
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.